Category: publishing

“Because poetry is condensed I don’t have to make my way right over to the right margin, I don’t have to leap around in time and space, and I can say a lot with fewer words if I can just find the right words.”

“Authors can, increasingly, make a tidy living by giving our opinion on the decline of the publishing industry. Now that we have e-books, a discussion about the impact of e-books is about the only thing authors are asked to talk about, which is not a bad thing, as we weren’t asked to talk about much before this.”

“For magazine publishers and newspapers, one of the trendiest solutions involves creating iPad or Android editions of publications — for which advertisers, so far, seem to pay at rates which rival print dollars instead of web pennies.”

The investigation follows a report by the Prime Ministry’s Council for Protecting Minors from Explicit Publications that accuses Burroughs’s The Soft Machine of “incompliance with moral norms” and “hurting people’s moral feelings.” (Not to mention “lacking unity in its subject matter,” “incompliance with narrative unity,” and “the application of a fragmented narrative style.”)

“There’s something shocking about physical attacks on books: it’s a denial of the strange power we invest in these inanimate objects; of how strongly they pull on our emotions.”

“Peter Lawrence can now comfortably boast that one of the biggest and most respected companies on Earth valued his great book at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping).”

“Enabling access to digital information should be one of the key responsibilities of our cultural institutions and our public sector. Keeping these resources in the public sector and ensuring that they are freely available to everyone is the key to bridging the UK’s widening digital divide.”

The Internet Music Score Library Project makes it possible to download classical scores, from Mozart to Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, for free. About 100,000 works are available online on wiki media software.

One consultant “makes the distinction between the instances of e-book piracy (the number of pirated e-book files available for download) and the impact of e-book piracy (the actual effect on the business of publishing). … He says that one way to measure impact is to pick a book, wait for it to be pirated, and then compare sales before and after.”

The revised plan is “is in the best interests of the debtors, their estates and creditors,” Judge Glenn said in the order.